Implementing CALL in the Malaysian Secondary Classroom

If you had the chance would you utilize ICT (CALL) in your teaching?

definitely yes. it will attract the student's attention better than the traditional chalk and talk.


How do you think it would help (or would not help) your students to learn English?

1. as it is interesting it will motivate the students to learn more.
2. using computer will surely attract the student's interest in learning.
3. by using and utilizing ESL programs and websites.




What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of implementing CALL in the Malaysian schools?

Advantage
1. lessons will be more interesting
2. students will not only learning language but also learning the computer at the same time.
3. teachers will saves time and money.

Disadvantage
1. students may not use the computer for learning purposes if not supervised.



What are the barriers in implementing CALL in the Malaysian classroom?

1. the sufficient facilities provided
2. well trained teachers
3. Student's attitudes

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WWW Lesson Plan

LEVEL : Form 4

TIME : 30 minutes

AIMS : To identify important information and write a sequential essay according to a video watched from a website.


TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

One computer per two students with an internet connection and a web browser with video streaming capability.

Website: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/858984/how_to_build_a_water_thrusted_rocket/


PREPARATION:

1. Locate site and wait for the video to finish loading.

2. Using the information from the video, fill the worksheet with appropriate data.


PROCEDURE:

1. Ask the students whether they had build things on their own.

2. Share with the students several things that they can build on their own using materials that can be found from their own household. For examples, pen holder, kite, picture frame, bookmark, etc.

3. Send the students to the website chosen and ask them to watch quietly.

4. Distribute the worksheet to each pairs and let them read through it.

5. Instruct the students to watch the video again and list down important information that can be found in the video and put in the worksheet.

6. After the students have finished filling the worksheet, discuss the answers with the students.

7. Instruct them to write a sequential essay on “How To Build A Water Thrusted Rocket”

8. Remind the students on the appropriate manner of writing a sequential essay.


FOLLOW-UP:

1. Remind students to finish the essay and it will be discuss in the following week.

MAHATMA GHANDI (In-CLass Task: Hypertext & Hypermedia )

Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India, on October 2nd 1869. His father died when he was still a teenager. At the age of 13 he married Kasturba Gandhi who was three years younger and the marriage lasts for 62 years until her death in 1944.

As a young man Gandhi left India to study law in London. Then he spent two decades working in South Africa securing rights for Indian expatriates. It was during this time that his political reform through non-violence which he called Satyagraha was born. This movement meant resistance of tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa, total non violence, which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. This way, when he returned to India, Mohandas Gandhi emerged as a political and religious leader in the fight for independence from Great Britain and was accorded the country's Father of the Nation. India freed itself from Britain on August 15th, 1947. Five months later, on January 25th, 1948 Gandhi was shot by a conservative Hindu.

Click HERE to watch "MAHATMA - LIFE OF GANDHI, 1869 -1948"

Internet search

i've just realized that there's this in-class assignment...sorry sir..

here's an ESL website that provides exercises for English language learner..

http://www.manythings.org/


The website targets are people who are learning English as a second language (ESL) or as foreign language (EFL). It also targeted the TESL/TEFL teachers as there are various kinds of activities that can be used in their lesson.

The websites offers many interesting exercises. The users can choose variety of exercises; quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities. The user just has to choose an exercise and wait for the exercise to load. When it finishes uploading, the users can start doing the exercise. Just need a simple click of a mouse.

Podcast

now i know..podcast is a series of digital media file the files you download to be used for your listening lesson...it can be downloaded from esl websites, and many other websites......you can listen to it on your mp3 player, your mobile phone, and etc..that means you can practice English anywhere.. but don't forget to download it 1st..

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